By using calcium to ensure a normal and healthy cell development, scientists therefore hope to reduce the cancer rates. This knowledge came to public attention by the October 13 issue of the New York Times in 1998 that contained an articled entitled “Calcium Takes Its Place As a Superstar of Nutrients”. This New York Times article turned the spotlights onto a two independent scientific articles that had been recently published in “Journal of the American Medical Association” and “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” respectively. In the first article, a research team behind this article claimed that “increasing calcium induced normal development of the epithelia cells”. A lot of people saw a possibility to prevent or even combat cancer by increasing their daily calcium intake. In the second article, team from the University of Southern California showed how “virtually no major organ system escapes calcium’s influence” and that “adding calcium to the diet lowered the blood pressure in 110 black teenagers”. For many consumers, coral calcium feels like a more natural dietary supplement than the artificially produced traditional calcium supplements. Coral calcium has also been heavily marketed as nothing less than a wonder drug that will take care of a wide range of different health problems and improve the general health of anyone. If this is true or not, and exactly how the benefits gained from coral calcium differs from those that can be achieved by eating a calcium rich diet or using ordinary calcium pills, has still not been determined scientifically. One of the main differences between ordinary calcium supplements and coral calcium is that coral calcium contains a wide range of other naturally occurring compounds in addition to the calcium. The first coral calcium that appeared on the marked was derived from the ocean floor surrounding the Japanese island of Okinawa. Okinawa coral calcium is still one of the most popular forms of coral calcium in Europe as well as in North America. Okinawa coral calcium is produced from coral grains that have been picked from the sea floor next to coral reefs. They contain no more than roughly 25 percent calcium, but are packed with more than 70 other compounds of which many are known to have a positive effect on the human body. Approximately 12 percent of an Okinawa coral calcium grain is magnesium, a compound necessary to the human body. Depending on your weight and gender, you will need between 300 and 400 mg of magnesium each day to stay healthy. Without magnesium ions, necessary enzymes will no longer be able to perform their catalytic action in the human body.
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